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“Trust Me, I’m a Leader”: Why Building a Culture of Trust Will Boost Employee Performance – and Maybe Even Save Your Company

Strategy Driven

Unusually Excellent is a back-to-basics reference book that offers both seasoned and aspiring leaders a framework for understanding and a guide for applying the battle-tested fundamentals of leadership at every stage of their careers. Feeling safe is a primal human need.

Company 62
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Algorithms Won’t Replace Managers, But Will Change Everything About What They Do

Harvard Business Review

The labor market is about to be transformed by machine intelligence, the combination of ubiquitous data and the algorithms that make sense of them. That’s according to economist Tyler Cowen, in an argument spelled out in his recent book Average is Over. WF: What do you see as the main career lessons of the book?

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“Trust Me, I’m a Leader”: Why Building a Culture of Trust Will Boost Employee Performance – and Maybe Even Save Your Company

Strategy Driven

Unusually Excellent is a back-to-basics reference book that offers both seasoned and aspiring leaders a framework for understanding and a guide for applying the battle-tested fundamentals of leadership at every stage of their careers. Feeling safe is a primal human need.

Company 50
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Staying Human in the Robot Age

Harvard Business Review

New workplace technology makes possible an unprecedented degree of control over working (and sometimes private) life – the New York Times’s account of tough working conditions in Amazon’s offices is a recent example. To give of their best, humans need to focus, tackle one thing at a time, and reflect deeply.

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Branding the Aspiring Novelist | In the CEO Afterlife

In the CEO Afterlife

by John • February 10, 2011 • Branding , Marketing , Writing • 3 Comments. USA Today reports she sold 164,000 e-books in 2010. Non-fiction writers require a ‘platform’, a means of marketing to an audience. Identify your differentiation and market your positioning with consistency in everything you do.

Brand 100